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Meet the industry’s first-ever carrier-grade, programmable router that offers converged IP and optical networking - the Cisco® Network Convergence System (NCS) 6000 Series Router. But that’s just the beginning of what it can do. Petabit scale and high performance are other winning features. And the Cisco NCS 6000 Series allows providers to easily virtualize services to improve business agility, simplify operations, and consolidate network devices. The Cisco NCS 6000 Series systemalso facilitates the build-out of the next-generation core to support elastic capacity at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and to deliver high-bandwidth mobile, video, and cloud services.

The Cisco NCS 6008 – 8-Slot Chassis is a single-chassis system (Figure 1) that provides 8 Tbps of full-duplex network bandwidth through 8 line cards. Each card delivers up to 1 Tbps throughput using a mix of 10-Gbps, 40-Gbps, or 100-Gbps interfaces per card. The Cisco NCS 6008 system also provides modular optics options to meet a wide range of distance requirements. In a multi-chassis configuration, the Cisco NCS 6008 system can be expanded to support up to 128 Tbps of full-duplex forwarding throughput.

Figure 1. Cisco NCS 6008 Single-Chassis System

The market demand for high-capacity data networks is accelerating: Most global communications now occur online. Internet and mobile use continue to expand, and video and interactive multimedia usage is increasing exponentially.

The Cisco NCS 6008 single-chassis system offers many advantages that can help meet usage demands for the foreseeable future:

●The system is powered by the new Cisco nPower NPUs, which meet the demands of the next-generation core without compromise.

●The Cisco NCS 6008 system (Figure 2) provides an operationally efficient infrastructure. All common components, route processors, switching fabric, fans, and power supplies are fully redundant. In addition, the platform uses power on an as-needed basis, depending on system requirements. Power has been modularized to reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and provide operationally efficient deployment. For environment efficiency, each line card’s power consumption is adapted to the number of ports used.

The Cisco NCS 6000 Series is engineered for environmental efficiency, using an adaptable power consumption model for both the ASIC and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) photonics technology. These technologies give theCisco NCS 6000 Series one of the lowest carbon footprints in service provider routing.

●The Cisco NCS 6000 Series is a fully distributed system. All packet-forwarding decisions and actions take place on the individual line cards to provide high-speed, flexible forwarding. The control plane is independently managed by the route processors, which communicate with other network elements, then send the feature and forwarding instructions to the line cards.

●The Cisco NCS 6000 Series uses the Cisco IOS XR operating system, well known for its use in the highly successful Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. Cisco IOS XR Software is the only fully modular, fully distributed internetworking operating system that uses control plane distribution to allow scaling from a single-chassis system to a large multichassis system. The Cisco IOS XR operating system is purpose-built for distributed systems. In the Cisco NCS 6000 Series, it is further extended by running in the virtual Cisco IOS-XR Software environment. This modularity provides the path to nonstop operations during software image upgrades or module changes.

●The Cisco NCS 6000 Series provides outstanding support for control plane integration between the router and optical extensions, for configuration, monitoring, and proactive protection.

Cisco NCS 6008 Line Cards

With the rapid growth of bandwidth in service provider networks, solutions must be both flexible and cost efficient. The Cisco NCS 6008 system delivers the highest throughput in the industry, while allowing for natural evolution of existing network architectures - and for tighter integration between the routing and optical transport networks. To help achieve these performance objectives, Cisco NCS 6008 line cards can be deployed in the following ways, based on the capabilities required:

●Short-term*: 5 to 90% but not to exceed 0.024 kg water per kg of dry air

*Short-term refers to a period of not more than 96 consecutive hours and a total of not more than 15 days in 1 year. (This refers to a total of 360 hours in any given year, but no more than 15 occurrences during that 1-year period.)

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For more information about the Cisco NCS 6008 single-chassis system, contact your local account representative or visit Cisco at: http://www.cisco.com/go/ncs6000.